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Manhattan was purchased by Dutch colonists from Native Americans in 1626 for the equivalent of $1,050 (in 2014).

Sam Schapiro began the Kosher wine industry on New York's Lower East side with their famous extra heavy original concord wine in 1899

New York City’s Federal Reserve Bank has the largest storage of gold in the world. The Fed's vault is 80 feet below street level and contains $90 billion in gold.

The borough of Brooklyn would be the fourth largest city in the United States, if it weren't part of NYC.

UPS, FedEx, and other commercial delivery companies receive up to 7,000 parking tickets a DAY, contributing up to $120 million in revenue for the City of New York.

The acclaimed movie "Taxi Driver" featuring Robert De Niro was filmed at Bellmore Cafeteria on Park Avenue and along Columbus Avenue.

The first presentation of 3D films before a paying audience took place at Manhattan's Astor Theater on June 10, 1915.

Pinball was banned in New York City until 1978. In the past, the NYPD even used to organize "Prohibition-style” busts to enforce the ban!

The New York Public Library has over 50 million books and other items and is the second largest library system in the nation after the Library of Congress. It is also the third largest library in the world.

About 1 in every 38 people living in the United States resides in New York City.

In 1975, the City of New York sold a private island in the East River for $10.

There is a death in New York City every 9.1 minutes.

More than 800 languages are spoken in New York City, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. Four in 10 NYC households speak a language other than English.

The entire world's population could fit in the state of Texas if it were as densely populated as New York City.

In NYC, there was one homicide on 9/11, and it remains unsolved.

All through the 20th century, and up until 2007, parts of Lower Manhattan were wired up using Edison’s original 110V DC.

The winter of 1780 was so harsh in New York that New York harbor froze over. People could walk from Manhattan to Staten Island on the ice.

In nine years, Madison Square Garden's lease will run out and the celebrated venue will have to move.

The first daily Yiddish newspaper appeared in 1885 in New York City.

Charles Feltman is said to have invented the hot dog at Coney Island in 1867. The famous Nathan’s was later opened by one of his former employees.

Credit card minimums ARE legal in NYC. In 2010, Congress legalized up to a $10 minimum.

When the Dutch first arrived to Manhattan, there were massive oyster beds. In fact, Ellis Island and Liberty Island were called Little Oyster and Big Oyster Island.

More Chinese people live in New York City than in any other city outside of Asia. More Jewish people live here than in any other city outside of Israel.

In 2010, 38% of all 911 calls in NYC were butt dials.

In 1922, there was a Straw Hat Riot. It was an unofficial rule in NYC that straw hats weren't allowed to be worn past Sept. 15, but some unruly kids started snatching people's hats a few days before that, causing an uprising that lasted a few days.

Up until World War II, everyone in the entire New York City who was moving - had to move to their new apartment on May 1.

The East River is not a river, it's a tidal estuary.

The Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan is the only school in the world offering a Bachelor of Science Degree with a Major in Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing.

740 Park in Manhattan is currently home to the highest concentration of billionaires in the country.

Eating a New York bagel is equivalent to eating one-quarter to one-half a loaf of bread.

The first bank card, named “Charg-It,” was introduced in 1946 in Brooklyn by banker John Biggins.

Chernobyl is closer to New York than Fukushima is to L.A.

The first public brewery in America was established by Peter Minuit at the Market (Marckvelt) field in lower Manhattan.

In 1920, a horse-drawn carriage filled with explosives was detonated on Wall Street killing 30 people. No one was ever caught, but the event is considered to be one of the first ever acts of domestic terrorism.

On November 28, 2012, not a single murder, shooting, stabbing, or other incident of violent crime was reported in NYC for an entire day. The first time… in… basically… ever.

On 9/11, when all transport out of the city was shut down, citizen boat owners managed to transport over 500k people from Manhattan Island in an amazing act of selflessness and camaraderie known as the “9/11 Boatlift.”

At one time, Brooklyn was its own separate city. It merged with the City of New York in what some Brooklyn residents call “the Great Mistake of 1898.”

France gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States in 1886 for its Centennial celebration. The statue was shipped as 350 pieces in 214 crates and took 4 months to assemble at its current home on Ellis Island.

The narrowest house in NYC is in the West Village: 75 1/2 Bedford Street is just over 9 feet wide.

A Brooklyn shopkeeper named Morris Michtom and his wife Rose are credited with inventing the teddy bear.

Albert Einstein's eyeballs are stored in a safe deposit box in New York City.

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